Police responded to a report of a break-in on Braintree Crescent in Silver Heights on Tuesday around 3:30 a.m. After trying to enter another home on Silverwood Bay, police and citizens combed the area and the culprit, 42, was found hiding in a tree behind a home on Braintree Crescent.

He was arrested and charged with numerous criminal offences including 12 counts of break and enter, police said. The man remains in custody.